N.Y. Public Housing Law § 20: Annual reports

§ 20. Annual reports. 1. The commissioner shall, on or before October

first in each year, beginning in nineteen hundred ninety, submit one or

more reports to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the

speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the senate and minority

leader of the assembly on the activity and implementation of the state

housing assistance programs for the previous fiscal year. In addition,

the commissioner shall, on or before February first in each year,

beginning in nineteen hundred ninety-one, submit an interim report which

contains, in tabular format only, the non-narrative data compiled

through November thirtieth of each year. The commissioner shall submit

on or before February first, nineteen hundred ninety a report for the

fiscal year commencing April first, nineteen hundred eighty-eight and

the most up to date non-narrative data, in tabular format only, but in

no event less than the data compiled through September thirtieth,

nineteen hundred eighty-nine. All such reports shall include, but not be

limited to the low income housing trust fund program, the affordable

home ownership development program, the urban initiatives program, the

rural area revitalization program, the rural rental assistance program,

the homeless housing and assistance program, the housing opportunities

program for the elderly, the state of New York mortgage agency forward

commitment and mortgage insurance programs, the housing finance agency

secured loan rental program, the turnkey/enhanced housing trust fund

program, the special needs housing program, the permanent housing for

the homeless program, the infrastructure development demonstration

program and the mobile home cooperative fund program. For the purpose of

producing such report or reports, the commissioner shall be authorized

to rely on information provided by each administering agency or

authority. Such report or reports shall, to the extent applicable to a

specific program, include but not be limited to: (i) a narrative for

each program reported describing the program purpose, eligible

applicants, eligible areas, income population to be served, and

limitations on funding; (ii) for each eligible applicant receiving

funding under the Housing Trust Fund or the Affordable Home Ownership

Development programs during the year specified herein, such applicant's

name and address, a description of the applicant's contract amount, a

narrative description of the specific activities performed by such

applicant, and the income levels of the occupants to be served by the

units all as proposed by the applicant at the time the contract is

awarded; (iii) a description of the distribution of funds for each

category of project funded under each program; (iv) the number of units

or beds under award, under contract, under construction and completed

based on a change in project status during the year for each program;

(v) the number of units or beds assisted during the year under each

program; (vi) the amount and type of assistance provided for such units

or beds placed under contract; (vii) based on total project costs, the

number of units or beds under contract and assisted through new

construction, substantial rehabilitation, moderate rehabilitation,

improvements to existing units or beds, and through acquisition only for

each program; (viii) for the number of units or beds under contract

assisted through new construction, substantial rehabilitation, moderate

rehabilitation, improvements to existing units or beds, and through

acquisition only, the level of state assistance expressed as a

percentage of total project cost; (ix) for those units and beds under

contract a calculation of the amount of non-state funds provided

expressed as a percentage of total project cost; (x) the number of units

or beds completed and under award, under contract and under construction

for each program based on the current program pipeline; (xi) for units

or beds for which mortgage assistance was provided by the state of New

York mortgage agency, the number of existing and newly constructed

units; and (xii) a list, by program, of units or beds assisted within

each county. To the extent that any law establishing or appropriating

funds for any of the aforementioned programs requires the commissioner

to produce a report containing data substantially similar to that

required herein, this report shall be deemed to satisfy such other

requirements.

2. The commissioner shall, on or before December thirty-first, two

thousand nineteen, and on or before December thirty-first in each

subsequent year, submit and make publicly available a report to the

governor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the

assembly, and on its website, on the implementation of the system of

rent regulation pursuant to chapter five hundred seventy-six of the laws

of nineteen hundred seventy-four, chapter two hundred seventy four of

the laws of nineteen hundred forty-six, chapter three hundred

twenty-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred sixty-three, chapter five

hundred fifty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred eighty-two, chapter

four hundred two of the laws of nineteen hundred eighty-three, chapter

one hundred sixteen of the laws of nineteen hundred ninety-seven,

sections 26-501, 26-502, and 26-520 of the administrative code of the

city of New York and the housing stability and tenant protection act of

2019. Such report shall include but not be limited to: a narrative

describing the programs and activities undertaken by the office of rent

administration and the tenant protection unit, and any other programs or

activities undertaken by the division to implement, administer, and

enforce the system of rent regulation; and in tabular format, for each

of the three fiscal years immediately preceding the date the report is

due: (i) the number of rent stabilized housing accommodations within

each county; (ii) the number of rent controlled housing accommodations

within each county; (iii) the number of applications for major capital

improvements filed with the division, the number of such applications

approved as submitted, the number of such applications approved with

modifications, and the number of such applications rejected; (iv) the

median and mean value of applications for major capital improvements

approved; (v) the number of units which were registered with the

division where the amount charged to and paid by the tenant was less

than the registered rent for the housing accommodation; (vi) for housing

accommodations that were registered with the division where the amount

charged to and paid by the tenant was less than the registered rent for

the housing accommodation, the median and mean difference between the

registered rent for a housing accommodation and the amount charged to

and paid by the tenant; (vii) the median and mean registered rent for

housing accommodations for which the lease was renewed by an existing

tenant; (viii) the median and mean registered rent for housing

accommodations for which a lease was signed by a new tenant after a

vacancy; (ix) the median and mean increase, in dollars and as a

percentage, in the registered rent for housing accommodations where the

lease was signed by a new tenant after a vacancy; (x) the median and

mean increase, in dollars and as a percentage, in the registered rent

for housing accommodations where the lease was signed by a new tenant

after a vacancy, where the amount changed to and paid by the prior

tenant was the full registered rent; (xi) the median and mean increase,

in dollars and as a percentage, in the registered rent for housing

accommodations where the lease was signed by a new tenant after a

vacancy, where the amount changed to and paid by the prior tenant was

less than the registered rent; (xii) the number of rent overcharge

complaints processed by the division; (xiii) the number of final

overcharge orders granting an overcharge; (xiv) the number of

investigations commenced by the tenant protection unit, the aggregate

number of rent stabilized or rent controlled housing accommodations in

each county that were the subject of such investigations, and the

dispositions of such investigations. At the time the report is due, the

commissioner shall make available to the governor, the temporary

president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, and shall make

publicly available, and on its website in machine readable format, the

data used to tabulate the figures required to be included in the report,

taking any steps necessary to protect confidential information regarding

ongoing investigations, individual buildings, housing accommodations,

property owners, and tenants.